On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:31 +0100, Peter Hunter wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:08 +0100, Peter Onion wrote: Yes, I've been thinking about this. The website I mentioned earlier is teaching me a lot and now I feel a bit restricted. Don't get me wrong, I like Yast and think it does a good job, BUT. It is too much like Windows in that it does it all for you. I don't like that because the only thing you can learn is where to click the mouse.
For that reason I have been thinking of changing the distro to something else. But what? I have seen discs with Fedora core 4 (or something like that) and Mandriva, as well as Debian, and many others. I would be pleased to hear what YOUR views are (and anyone Else's for that matter).
That's the great thing, there ARE different flavour to choose from, different flavours targeted on different types of user mean you get a better fit than the "It's got to be XP" scenario.
For the first few year I ran Slackware as I was more interested in "tinkering with the system". Now I'm more interested in having a stable and reliable system to run applications/tools I want to use and on which to develop my own code.
I agree that SuSE/YaST can seem to be a bit limiting, but I've never failed to install something I've wanted to use. Sometime you just need to remove a SuSE packaged version first.
I do think that having YaST available for some of the more mundane sys admin tasks is a plus for new Linux users.
Peter